"Going to London through "Epping Forest" [graphic]

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Title: "Going to London through "Epping Forest" [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 August 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Augt. 3d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
Abstract: "An ugly middle-aged woman, wearing a calash hood (cf. BMSat 5434) over a cap, picks up her petticoats to step over or through a bush shaped like a forest tree, but spotted with red fruit. She grins and clutches in her right hand a paper inscribed 'Wonderful Aeronauts'. She is walking towards a garden latrine (left). Two concentric circles of greenery surround the bush. There is a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north.
Mounted on leaf 79 of volume 10 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.7 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 22.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Artists' devices
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1802
England > London > 1802
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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